Edward Norton Quotes
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There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
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Some of the furor that surrounded a Harry Potter publication was fun.
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I vehemently deny that I was born a cynic and a pessimist.
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There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
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When Paris has to pee, Paris has to pee!
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Back in the 1960s, I got a superb education for very little money. The bill for my first year at Harpur College in New York was a few hundred dollars.
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As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth.
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Kuhn was the intellectual of whom many scientists said he's 'telling it as is it is' insofar as talking about a process of 'tinkering' in terms of theory and experiment followed by radical changes. But often, what Kuhn had in mind were some very spectacular incidents in the history of the sciences that changed our way of looking at the world.
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There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children, playing or quarrelling on the line.
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Fortunately, human forgetting follows a pattern. We forget exponentially. A graph of our likelihood of getting the correct answer on a quiz sweeps quickly downward over time and then levels off.
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It all begins with the initial tone coming from the cabinet, but EQ at the board is very important.
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Since ancient times, people from throughout Asia have brought to Japan their talents, knowledge and energy, helping to lay the basis for Japan's existence as a country.
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It was a decent New Year's, but it took a million officers to make it so.
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It's not healthy to be jealous.
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Healing yourself is connected with healing others.
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Whoever has lost a fight in the UFC and hasn't wanted to fight that guy the next day shouldn't be in the sport.
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I used to buy records in high school. Mainly dancehall: Super Cat, Buju Banton.
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To all the parents out there, thank you for allowing me to be a role model for your children. I really, really do not take that for granted.
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I was wrong, however, to suppose that Sellers thought the world revolved around him. He thought the cosmos did too, and history, and the fates... Like every egomaniac, he behaved as if everybody else spent their day being as interested in him as he was.
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Well, I never really practiced because I never had the opportunity to practice.
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Every moment of your life is either a test or a celebration.
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You may tell me that my hand and foot are only imaginary symbols of my existence. I could believe you, but you never, never can convince me that the I is not an eternal reality, and that the spiritual is not the true and real part of me.
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I'm still coming to terms with what it's like to have people follow your personal life as well as your public life. It gets amusing.
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Life, like poker has an element of risk. It shouldn't be avoided. It should be faced.
